'JS Journal', September 1986

Table of content

• Contents Page
  02

  Page 2-5
  News
  Page 6-7
  Branch openings
  Taunton
  Heyford Hill
  Page 8-9
  Milking a story— milk at JS
  Page 10-11
  New look for Streatham office
  Page 12-14
  Putting you in the picture — the JS photo processing service
  Page 15
  New...

• FRONTLINE
  02

  FRONTLINE
  IS BEAUTY REALLY NECESSARY?
  A fresh look for foundations.
  Eating out with Max
  Bygraves. Social topics like
  children's playgrounds and
  home co-operatives. Recipes and
  a history of Brighton. Short
  stories about...

• Management moves
  02

  Management moves
  DEPUTY CHAIRMAN, Sir
  Roy Griffiths, has announced
  that following the retirement, in
  July 1987, of Tom Hayncs, area
  director. Northern area, a
  number of changes will take
  place at senior...

• Facelift for Walsall's lady on the wall
  03

  Facelift for Walsall's lady on the wall
  Left: The Guildhall as it was
  before JS came to the rescue THE STATUE of Justice and
  coat of arms on the front of
  Walsall's historic guildhall was
  restored to its former glory
  thanks...

• Obituary
  03

  Obituary
  KEN WOOD, former area
  general manager for Uxbridgc
  area (now Central and
  Western), died on August 28.
  He retired in April 1983
  after 46 years of service, the
  last four and a half years as
  assistant general manager...

• Tiles of style
  03

  Tiles of style
  WORK AT THE New Victoria
  Theatre in Newcastle under Lyme
  has been boosted thanks to a
  £1,500 donation from JS.
  The money will be used to
  build a courtyard, steps and
  balustrade at the rear of...

• Top of the shops — survey
  03

  Top of the shops — survey
  JS HAS been voted 'Top of the
  Shops' according to a survey
  undertaken by Woman magazine
  recently.
  Customers at JS are said to be
  the happiest, the most satisfied
  and the most loyal of all...

• Artists find a place in education
  04

  Artists find a place in education
  WHAT A LUXURY for a
  school to have its very own
  artists. Two schools in Plymouth
  enjoyed just such a luxury thanks to 'Artists in School
  Placements' organised by Plymouth
  Arts Centre and...

• Helping to look after baby
  04

  Alan Bonner (left) with Gareth Thomas and staff from Ipswich
  Hospital.
  Helping to
  look after baby
  HOSPITALS are always in need of support and Ipswich Hospital is no
  exception.
  Very much aware of the type of equipment the...

• Two year scheme for YTS
  04

  THIS PHOTOGRAPH (head
  office trainees receiving their
  YTS certificate after the one
  year programme) is reward
  enough for JS's involvement
  with the Youth Training
  Scheme. Last year, 98 per cent
  of those completing the one...

• Accounting for success
  05

  Accounting for success
  THERE'S A WHOLE lot of
  studying going on at Streatham
  office. A number of young
  people have just passed
  examinations set by the Institute
  of Cost and Management
  Accounting (ICMA) and the
  Chartered...

• Cookability JS style
  05

  Cookability JS style
  TODAY'S QUALITY from JS
  and tomorrow's technology
  from the Electricity Board
  combined to demonstrate how
  cooking will look in Britain in
  the 1990s.
  Jane. Babbage, JS home economist
  for the South...

• Students say their piece and take their share
  05

  Students say their piece and take their share
  FOUR SCHOOL CHILDREN
  have talked their way into JS.
  They are now shareholders in
  the company after expounding
  their views on share ownership.
  A total of £800 of shares was
  won...

• Branch opening—Taunton
  06

  It's home from home, not only for staff of the old Taunton store but also for its
  manager and deputy manager, who both transferred to the new store on its
  opening. It is almost twice the size of the old branch which traded...

• Branch opening—Heyford Hill
  07

  OXFORD
  Opening date: 19 August 1986
  Address: Heyford Hill, Littlemore,
  Oxford, Oxon
  Opened by: Deputy chairman, Sir Roy
  Griffiths
  Manager: Dennis Barnes
  Staff: 238 (193 new jobs)
  Sales area: 34,392 sq ft
  Car park: 687...

• EXPLORING THE MILKY WAY
  08

  MILK IS ONE OF the oldest and
  most complete of all foods. The early
  life of any mammal depends upon milk
  for a healthy life. It provides protein, a
  range of vitamins and is the major
  source of calcium in most British...

• The JS milk monitor
  09

  The JS milk monitor
  JULIA COLES needs a lot of bottle as milk
  buyer at JS. She is responsible for keeping
  all those gallons of milk flowing steadily
  from the dairy to JS branches. 'I don't
  actually do any ordering myself...

• STREATHAM STRIDES AHEAD
  10

  STREATHAM STRIDES AHEAD
  STREATHAM OFFICE WAS beginning to
  look like something out of a 1960s movie.
  Visitors would half expect to see staff
  sporting mini skirts and side burns. These
  offices were beginning to show their age....

• The developing film industry at JS
  12

  The developing film industry at JS
  THE TOP THREE LEISURE ACTIVITIES IN BRITAIN ARE: GARDENING, PHOTOGRAPHY AND DIY. HOMEBASE IS THE GREAT PROVIDER WHEN IT COMES TO GARDENING
  AND DIY. NOW SEE HOW JS IS ANSWERING THE DEMAND OF...

• SSA/JS JOURNAL PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPETITION 1986
  14

  SSA/JS JOURNAL PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPETITION 1986
  Win £100 WHF.THER YOU like
  to take pictures in
  colour or black and
  w h i t e , w e ' r e sure
  you'll have something
  t o offer the 1986
  SSA/JS Journal
  photographic...

• DIY
  15

  DIY
  DREAMING of re-decorating
  your home?
  Habitat and Homebase have
  launched, as their first joint merchandising
  venture, four creative home design books each focusing
  on a particular area of the
  house and garden:...

• Low fat
  15

  Low fat
  JS HAS TWO, traditionally
  fatty' lines, which have gone on
  a diet!
  Joining the low fat, extra lean
  range are Pork and Beef Sausages
  (89p, lib) and a pack of
  two Beefburgers (84p, 8oz).
  Both are high in protein...

• Pies & pizzas
  15

  Pies & pizzas
  FOR THOSE who are young,
  free and single (or the young-atheart,
  free and single!), JS has a
  number of new 'one portion'
  lines which will make dining
  alone a pleasure.
  Dine American style with one
  of the two...

• Dover's drinkers go for doubles
  16

  Dover's drinkers go for doubles
  DOVER PUB GOERS were not
  too surprised to be seeing double
  one summer night but they were
  a little confused that what they
  were seeing appeared to be
  'Watch with Mother'!
  There was a logical...

• Fun at the fete
  16

  Fun at the
  AN OLD FASHIONED
  English fete organised by
  Basingstoke Central branch
  attracted a large crowd on
  Sunday July 20.
  A family day with a
  difference, the event was
  organised in aid of the Macmillan
  Fund and Cystic...

• When your colleagues are all heart
  16

  When your colleagues are all heart
  WELLINGBOROUGH tradesman, Bernard Corcoran, is surrounded
  by colleagues who sponsored him for over CI00 to complete a
  marathon swim.
  The money was donated to the British Heart Foundation...

• Crosby makes a pitch for big league
  17

  Crosby makes a pitch for big league
  SO NEAR and yet so far!
  The five-a-side football team
  from Crosby has had a very
  successful time of it lately
  although they never quite got to
  taste the glory they deserve.
  They were...

• Quick on the draw
  17

  Quick on the draw
  GREAT YARMOUTH is kept in good spirits by a
  local draw — that is, a customer, Mr Harrison.
  For the amusement of staff he's drawn many
  cartoons about life in the branch.
  He hands them to the cashiers when...

• Shakespearean shower
  17

  Shakespearean shower
  TO BE or not to be soaking
  wet. That is the question. A
  sudden shower just before
  an open air performance of
  Shakespeare's Julius Caesar
  at Sheldon Manor in Chippenham,
  left seats sopping
  wet. The...

• JS comes to the aid of the party
  18

  JS comes to the aid of the party
  WHEN pensioners celebrated the Royal Wedding at
  Leatherhead the cake they cut was provided by JS.
  Leatherhead branch held a raffle to raise money for
  sparkling wine and a cake to add to the...

• The art of hanging round pubs
  18

  CHEERS ECHOED throughout
  the land on July 23 — Royal
  Wedding day. And one of the
  loudest cheers belonged to Ruth
  Hopkins-Green, night shelf filler
  at Holloway. She was not just
  celebrating the happy day, but
  she was also...

• How to profit from training
  19

  How to profit from training
  KILLING TWO birds with one
  stone is a good way to describe
  what three YTS students at
  Bridgwater have been up to
  recently.
  As part of their off-job
  training Fiona Williams, Beverley
  Winn and...

• Home sweet home
  20

  Home sweet home
  The Journal comes to rest! After a
  fairly nomadic existence the Journal
  office has put down roots on
  the third floor of Stamford House
  — near the lifts.
  He's not lying down on the
  job — just fixing...

• Homebase up for grabs
  20

  Homebase up for grabs
  Left to right: Mr and Mrs Cunton; Sue Douce (Scotch); manager, Bernadette
  ~ b Lucas.
  SKUTTLING round Colchester Homebase cramming a trolley full of DIY goodies was the first
  prize in a competition...

• SSA snow scenes
  20

  SSA snow scenes
  SUMMER MAY have disappeared
  without really arriving
  but you can console yourself by
  planning this winter's skiing
  holiday.
  The SSA has holidays to offer
  which in some cases are available at £60 per head...

• Staff are hot stuff!
  20

  Staff are hot stuff!
  LOUGHBOROUGH CUSTOMER,
  Alison Sadler, got
  more than she bargained for
  when she popped into the store.
  To her horror, when she
  returned to the car after shopping,
  she found it in flames.
  Dashing to her...

• Macmillan report—the latest fundraising events for Cancer Relief
  21

  IT'S GOING great guns! After 19 weeks of
  fundraising for the Macmillan Nurses the total
  money raised by branches is around £75,000. • There isn't a wobbly thigh in
  sight at Beckenham thanks to
  large doses of leg exercises....

• Appointments
  22

  Appointments
  Alan Bacon, formerly deputy
  manager at London Road,
  Brighton, has been appointed
  manager of Goring Road.
  Andrew Cope, formerly manager
  at Oxford, has been
  appointed manager of Cowley.
  Kenneth Evans,...

• Len sits down off the job
  22

  Len sits down off the job
  LEN WOOLEY, meat manager
  at Brentwood, will take life sitting
  down from now on. after
  almost 49 years' service with JS.
  To celebrate his departure
  from the company, Len was
  presented with a garden...

• Retirements
  22

  Retirements
  Cyril Richards, warehouse
  supervisor at Basingstoke depot,
  has retired after 37 years with
  JS.
  He began his career with the
  company in the Blackfriars
  warehouse. After becoming despatch
  clerk in the canned...

• Feedback
  23

  FEEDBACK
  Looking after
  the pennies
  From: Andrew Foreman, store
  planning and display, Head
  Office.
  Currently, when profit sharing is
  distributed, any person taking
  shares is usually left with a small
  amount of cash...

• Staff from Basingstoke depot
  23

  PICTURED ABOVE are 17
  members of staff from
  Basingstoke depot who
  retired on the same day!
  With them are management
  from Basingstoke.
  To mark the occasion,
  depot manager, Roy Pagden,
  i n v i t e d each r e t i r i...

• Family Memories
  24

  ARCHIVES
  ramily Memories / \ y wenty-five years ago this
  / \ M month a new and exciting
  / m A publication took its place on
  \^f ^m the shelves of JS branches:
  ^m Sainsbury's Family magazine,
  ^fe ^M issued quarterly and...